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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

IJOCA 18-2 correction in Richard Thompson article

Richard Thompson actually passed away on July 27, 2016 and not July 28 as was incorrectly stated in "Remembering Richard Thompson (1957-2016)." The author regrets the error and apologizes to IJOCA's readers.

Mike Rhode
the author

International Journal of Comic Art 18-2 Fall / Winter 2016 is out

See http://www.ijoca.com for ordering details. On a personal note, I have a remembrance of my friend Richard Thompson in it.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 18, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2016

Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
My Drifting Manga Life
Frederik L. Schodt
1
Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
I Am Just a Comic Book Reader Who Became Curious ...
Waldomiro Vergueiro
20
Heroism Reversed: Graphic Novels About the Great War
Sylvain Rheault
33
A Collaborative Journey: Malcolm Whyte, Troubador Press, and the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
Kim Munson
61
How the French Kickstarted the Acceptance of Comics as an Art Form in the US: the Books and Exhibitions of Maurice Horn
Kim Munson
111
A Brief History of the Translation of American Comic Strips in Pre-World War II Japan and the Origins of Contemporary Narrative Manga
Eike Exner
156
Gene Luen Yang's Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town
Sheng-Mei Ma
175
From Phylacteries to Balloons: Consequences of Epistemological Evolution in Pictorial  Representation of Discourse Support
Fabio Mourilhe
196
Food in Post-Soviet Russian Comics
Jose Alaniz
216
The Influence of Cartoon and Animation for the Elaboration of Visual Art in the Electronic Dance Music Genre
Citlaly Aguilar Campos
234
Hippies, Rogues, and Urban Losers: Subjects of the Indian Graphic Novel
Preeti Singh
258
Graphic Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice: Pastiche, Parody, and Intertextuality
Kirsten Mollegaard
280
Comics Journalism: An Interview with Josh Neufeld
Dominic Davies
299
Poetics of Sound and Death: The Function of Nature and Effects in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
Kay K. Clopton
318
I Will Not Bow: Analysis of the Feminine Refusal of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic in Jnuyasha
Robyn Johnson
337
An Interview with English Comic Book Artist Arthur Ranson
Jeffery KJaehn
354
Remembering Her 50 Years in Japanese Girls' and Ladies' Comics: An Interview with Chikae Ide
Kinko Ito
367
The Neurotic Gaze: Jules Feiffer Seen Through a Feminist Lens
Amadeo Gandolfo
384
Violence Representation in Horror Comic Books
Edilaine Correa
403
Remembering Richard Thompson (1957-2016)
Mike Rhode
417
How Realism is Shaping Korean Webtoons
Alyssa Kim
421
"YES SIR!" 50 Years of Nationalism and the lndo-Pak War in Narayan Debnath's Bnatul the Great
Sourav Chatterjee
434
Fiction, Transmedia Storytelling, and Cartoons: The Life and Death of Re Bordosa
Luiza Lusvarghi
453
How a Shojo (a Japanese Girl) Transcends National Borders Through an Incestuous Body: Shojo Manga from the 1970s to the 2000s
Fusami Ogi
463
An Interview with Comic Book Artist Paul Gulacy
Jeffery KJaehn
479
Writing the Picture: Ramayana Narrative in a Graphic Novel Form
Varsha Jha (Singh)
488
The Next Generation of Comics Researchers
The Visual Ideograph: The Advent and Departure of the Abu Ghraib "Hooded Specter"
Joseph Hancuch
504
(YA)ru, (O)kasu, (I)kaseru: Do Him, Rape Him, Make Him Cum: Rape, Loss, and the Silence of Queer Identity in Boys Love Manga
Zac Clifton
516
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
531
Book Reviews
Jose Alaniz
John A. Lent
534
Portfolio
540